Guillermo del Toro says he saw a real UFO and it was ‘horribly designed’

The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about some of the strangest and most supernatural experiences of his life. In addition to two encounters with ghosts, he describes how he had a very vivid encounter with a UFO as a young man — and it looked like crap.

“You sound like a complete lunatic, but I saw a UFO. I didn’t want to see a UFO,” says del Toro. “It was horribly designed.” He described buying a six-pack — which he insists he didn’t drink! — with a friend, and the pair drove out to go look at the stars on the side of an isolated freeway near Guadalajara.

As they sat alone in the darkness, they saw a light on the horizon moving “super-fast.” After they honked at it and flashed theirR30;